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Fri, 18 May 2018 01:28:11 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.6Ghana line-up Mexico friendly in USA in Junehttp://amandlanews.com/5341-2/
http://amandlanews.com/5341-2/#respondMon, 19 Jun 2017 15:35:05 +0000http://amandlanews.com/?p=5341Ghana’s senior national team has lined-up a high profile friendly against Mexico to be played in the United States of America in June, Ghanasoccernet.com can reveal. The Black Stars will take on the South American giants in the friendly to be played at Houston Dynamo’s NRG Stadium.

The game will be played on Wednesday 28th June, 2017(7:30 p.m. Houston Local time). The match gives the Black Stars the chance to seek to avenge some defeats at the hands of Mexico who have defeated Ghana in two all-time meetings (2006 and 2008). The 2006 game, played at FC Dallas’ Toyota Stadium, saw Guillermo Franco score the game’s only goal with a 75th minute header. Mexican National Team legend Pável Pardo was the hero of the 2008 game, scoring the winning goal – a penalty – in the 85th minute to give Mexico a 2-1 win, in a match played in England. Mexico has played at NRG Stadium (formerly named Reliant Stadium) 15 times, resulting in seven wins, six draws, and just two losses. The first, in 2003 against arch-rivals United States, resulted in a scoreless draw in front of almost 70,000 fans. Since then, the National Team has played matches at NRG Stadium nearly every year, including Gold Cup matches, World Cup Qualifying matches, and a match against Venezuela during last year’s historic Copa America Centenario. Some other notable games include the 2007 Gold Cup quarterfinal against Costa Rica, in which Jared Borgetti scored the winning goal in added time on Mexico’s journey to the final, and a 2011 Gold Cup semifinal win against Honduras.

Ghana will use the match in preparation towards the qualifiers for the 2018 World Cup and also the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations.

GHANAsoccernet.com

]]>http://amandlanews.com/5341-2/feed/0Ghana church holds Chelsea Thanksgiving servicehttp://amandlanews.com/ghana-church-holds-chelsea-thanksgiving-service/
http://amandlanews.com/ghana-church-holds-chelsea-thanksgiving-service/#respondMon, 19 Jun 2017 15:31:33 +0000http://amandlanews.com/?p=5338A church in Ghana’s capital, Accra, has held a thanksgiving service for Chelsea following its recent success in the Premier League. Long-time Chelsea fan Pastor Azigiza encouraged people to come wearing football tops of their favourite team. Standing behind a Chelsea cake on a stage made to look like a football pitch he said: “Chelsea, by the grace of God, came first.” He told the BBC he wanted to use the power of football to talk about God. Azigiza also led the congregation in a verse of the Chelsea anthem Blue is the Colour. The pastor, who at one time was a radio DJ, was also teasing his immediate boss at the Living Streams International Church, Reverend Dr Ebenezer Markwei, who is an Arsenal fan. In his sermon, Pastor Markwei talked about “the good, the bad and the ugly of rivalry” suggesting that football fans should engage in friendly rivalry. He said there was fellowship
in rejoicing in others’ successes, so when it is your turn others would do the same. The one blemish in Chelsea’s domestic season was that they lost the FA Cup Final 2-1 to Arsenal. But during the service Azigiza thanked God for Arsenal’s victory “because it means that [Arsenal manager] Arsene Wenger will stay” and they cannot win the league with him, he said.

Fans of all teams were welcome to the service and Azigiza told the BBC that he wanted to defuse rivalry between supporters of different clubs. Although, he added, they were reminded that Chelsea had just been crowned Premier League champions. Chelsea won the Premier League in May with 93 points, seven ahead of their nearest rivals Tottenham. The English Premier League has a large and passionate following in Ghana. Research carried out by Twitter in 2015 suggested that Chelsea is the most popular side in Ghana and much of the rest of West Africa.

The maiden Football Busi- ness Exposition has been launched in Houston, United States of America.

The event was launched on Monday as part of the Ghana-Houston Chamber of Commerce’s 3rd Annual OTC Dinner Reception.

In attendance was the Minister for Business Development, Ibrahim Mohammed Awal who duly launched the Expo which is slated to take place on June 27th and 30th June respectively.

“Our objective is to make an impact with the expo and reach the rest of the world through the United States,” said Mr Mohammed Awal “The Expo is a one stop shop where the Government of Ghana will be duly represented,the Ministry of Business Development has the lead role in that regard. Project consultant / representative of the Ghana Football Association, Mr Ebo Appiah noted that the project is not just an exhibition and a trade fair about Ghana. “We are here to connect, life is about people, the expo seeks to illuminate all about the people of Ghana,” said Ebo Appiah

“We want the world to know that Ghana is more than a football nation, our nations doors are opened for business. He added, “We at that Ghana Football Association believe is time to use the attention we attract during our international engagements and help contribute our quota in developing our dear nation.

The event will be held a day prior to our international friendlies on June 28 against the Mexican National football team and 1st of July against the United States national soccer team in Hartford, CT .

The National Basketball Associ- ation opened its first training academy in Africa on Thursday in a push to expand its presence on the continent and prepare more African players to enter the league, its vice-president for Africa said.

The academy is based in the seaside West African nation of Senegal, where a sports development program in partnership with the NBA has already produced professional players including Minnesota Timberwolves centre-forward Gorgui Dieng.

“The goal of the NBAAcademy Africa is to create a more direct path for young people who have talent so that their future is not determined by chance,” Amadou Gallo Fall told reporters in Senegal’s capital Dakar. The academy is part of a push to expand recruitment worldwide and follows three academies which were launched in China last year. Two more are slated to open in India and Australia.
The number of international players in the NBA has been increasing, with a record 113 on opening night rosters for the 2016-17 season. But most are European, with only 14 from Africa.

Basketball has long been eclipsed by soccer on the continent, where even former superstars such as Nigeria’s Hakeem Olajuwon did not learn to play until their late teens.

“If you could find a kid from Africa that can shoot the ball, that’s kind of special. Why? Because he doesn’t have the resources,” said the academy’s technical director Roland Houston, as 20 lanky teenagers practiced at a training camp in the Senegalese city of Thies earlier this week.

The NBA academy will build on the Sports for Education and Eco- nomic Development (SEED) Project, which has trained young players in Senegal since it was founded in 2002.

Twelve players will be selected to join the inaugural class. All will receive scholarships to the academy, which will also provide academic courses and mentoring. “I see basketball as something that … has already taken me places. Basketball has made me meet people I never expected to meet, people I never wished I could even shake hands with,” said Timothy Ighoeffe, 17, one of the hopefuls from Nigeria.

The NBA is also counting on the move to help it reach new audiences in Africa, where it has slowly been building its brand. It held its first African exhibition game in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2015 and signed a major trans-African broadcast deal last year.

Cameroon won a fifth CAF Africa Cup of Na- tions title following their 2-1 come-from-behind win over Egypt in the Gabon 2017 Final in Libreville after second-half goals from substitutes Nicolas N’Koulou and Vincent Aboubakar. Having suffered a minor calf injury and missing out on the Pharaohs’ knockout stage matches, Arsenal midfielder Mohamed El Neny returned in time for the final and in style as he opened the scoring in the 22nd minute in Libreville. After a neat exchange between Mohamed Salah on the edge of Cameroon’s penalty area, El Neny rifled in his shot at an acute angle, deceiving Cameroon’s 21-year-old goalkeeper Fabrice Ondoa, who would have thought El Neny had a cross in mind.

El Neny had his goalscoring boots on at just the right time as he had to remain patient since his last goal (for club or country) came 11 months ago, when he scored for the Gunners against Barcelona in the last 16 of the UEFA Champions League last season.

Egypt head coach Hector Cuper emphasised solid defensive organisation throughout Gabon 2017. Cameroon was going up against a backline that had only conceded one goal all tournament, which made substitute Nicolas N’Koulou’s equaliser all the more unexpected. The Indomitable Lions’ star man Benjamin Moukandjo curled in a precise cross from the left wing that N’Koulou met with a towering header, springing above Egypt defender Ahmed Hegazi, to head past Essam El Hadary and bring Cameroon level. N’Koulou’s header gave the Indomitable Lions the belief they needed to bring the country its first continental trophy since 2002. In the 88th minute, substitute striker Aboubakar struck home the winner with an incredible piece of individual skill. The Besiktas forward brought down a long ball from Sebastien Siani with his chest and flicked the ball over Egyptian defender Ali Gabr before unleashing a pin-point finish past El Hadary. Aboubakar’s winning goal for the Indomitable Lions will go down as one of the finest in Africa Cup of Nations Final’s history. The striker’s volley sent the Cameroon-heavy crowd into raptures as he completed Cameroon’s come-back and punched their ticket to Russia 2017. With the win, Cameroon surpassed Ghana to become outright second in Africa Cup of Nations history with five titles.

FIFA.COM

]]>http://amandlanews.com/cameroon-crowned-african-champions-with-comeback-win/feed/0Afcon 2017: All the 16 qualified nationshttp://amandlanews.com/afcon-2017-all-the-16-qualified-nations/
http://amandlanews.com/afcon-2017-all-the-16-qualified-nations/#respondFri, 16 Sep 2016 21:29:55 +0000http://amandlanews.com/?p=4971Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of Congo, Togo, Tunisia and Uganda on Sunday September 4, filled the final five 2017 Africa Cup of Nations places that were up for grabs. They will join Algeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Morocco, Senegal, Zimbabwe, all of whom qualified before the final round, and hosts Gabon at the tournament next January. On a dramatic final day of qualifying, Togo scored five goals, DR Congo and Tunisia four each and Burkina Faso won with a goal nine minutes into stoppage time. But no celebrations could match those of Uganda, whose last of five appearances at the African football showpiece was in 1978, when they finished runners-up to hosts Ghana. Tunisia won Group A by trouncing Liberia 4-1 in Monastir with a Wahbi Khazri goal after only five minutes setting the tone. Liberian Mark Paye cut the deficit to 2-1 on 71 minutes only for the Carthage Eagles to respond with two more goals in the following six minutes. Togo hammered whipping boys Djibouti 5-0 in Lome in the same minileague to claim one of two places reserved for the runners-up with the most points. The Togolese shared second place in the runners-up standings with Benin and Ethiopia, but had a vastly superior goal difference. K o m l a n A g b e g n i a d a n rounded off the rout with two goals in the final four minutes for the Sparrowhawks, who are coached by veteran Frenchman Claude Le Roy. DR Congo took control in the second half to whip Central African Republic 4-1 in a top-of-the-table Group B clash and finish five points clear. Jonathan Bolingi and Jordan Botaka scored during the final quarter after the visitors had pulled one goal back through Eloge Enza-Yamissi to trail 2-1 on 62 minutes in Kinshasa. A Banou Diawara goal after 99 minutes in Ouagadougou gave Burkina Faso a 2-1 win over Botswana in a match that produced three red cards, two of them to the visitors. The last-gasp victory gave the Stallions top place in Group D on the head-to-head rule over Uganda, who qualified as the best runners-up. Teenager Farouk Miya scored 35 minutes into the first half to give Uganda a 1-0 win over the Comoros in front of a capacity 45 000 Kampala crowd. But the dominant Cranes wasted several chances to extend the lead and ease visible tension on the pitch and in the packed stands. Equatorial Guinea, 2015 Cup of Nations hosts and semifinalists, scored four goals within 16 minutes to crush South Sudan 4-0 in a Group C match in Malabo that had only pride at stake. In five previous qualifiers against Benin, South Sudan and Mali, the Equatoguineans managed to score just twice in 450 minutes. The final 16 ar e : G a b o n , A l g e r i a , B u r k i n a F a s o , Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire DR Congo, Egypt, Ghana Guinea Bissau, Mali, Morocco, Senegal, Tunisia, Togo Uganda, Zimbabwe. Ghana: MyJoyOnline
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http://amandlanews.com/special-tribute-to-muhammed-ali/#respondFri, 17 Jun 2016 15:30:40 +0000http://amandlanews.com/?p=4779 by Amandla’s Editor in Chief Kwabena Opong

He was just a prize-fighter, come to think about it. But his prize was not those millions he made in the boxing ring. It is the rewards he garnered from his life in and out of the ring. It is the inspiration he exuded. It is what he said he was: the Greatest.

His championship was not over Sonny Liston, Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Leon Spinks, et al. Muhammad Ali born Cassius Marcellus Ali was the world’s champion. Champion for the down trodden. The Champ as he was often called was the world’s only true champion. A man born in humble circumstances, Muhammad Ali got his inspiration from the theft of his bike. When he went to the police precinct to make a report of his missing bike, he told the officer, “I’ll whup the guy who stole my bike if I catch him,” and the policeman told him, “son you got to learn how to fight first.” From that time the world had its champion. Ali was not the first black man to win a world championship in boxing. They range from Tom Molineaux, a slave who won freedom and fame in the ring in the early 1800s; to Joe Gans, the first African American world champion; to the flamboyant Jack Johnson, deemed such a threat to white society that film of his defeat of former champion and “Great White Hope” Jim Jeffries was banned across much of the country. Nigeria’s Dick Tiger won the WBA world welterweight and the light heavyweight championships a few times in his career too. And there was Joe Louis. Time and history might have been on his side, maybe. There was the Vietnam war which he refused to fight. “Shoot them for what? They never called me nigger. They never lynched me.” America promised him five years in jail for objecting to fight, and when he flexed his muscles the nation flinched. The Civil Rights struggles were in heat, while internationally, the Cold War had divided the world into ideological blocks. In Africa, the wind of change was blowing as colonies morphed into sovereign states. Ali shaped his country and the world in much the same way as the world in his time occasioned his role.

Boxing took him to the palaces of the world’s kings and leaders. The charisma of Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah gave him a “jolt” with the words, “I thought I was the greatest but he is,” when he met Nkrumah in 1963. He was given the welcome of a world statesman even in Ghana when he visited. The young nation of Ghana was making strides in a world mired in the cold war and Kwame Nkrumah was giving the first world a headache. He was impressed with Leonid Brezhnev’s constant quest for peace, something that America construed as Russia’s quest for war.
Muhammad Ali was a wit. Poetry came to him like rap came to Tupac Shakur. CNN writes he could be fearsome: “I wrestled with an alligator, I tussled with a whale, I handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail, I’m bad man….Last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean I make medicine sick,” he said to laughs ahead of his famous “Rumble in the Jungle” with George Foreman in 1974. The following year, Ali used another play on words to promote the predicted pummeling of Joe Frazier at the “Thrilla in Manila.”

“It will be a killer and a chiller and a thriller when I get the gorilla in Manila.” He could be arrogant too: Ali took the art of talking himself up to new levels, reminding rivals that there was only one king of the ring.
‘If you even dream of beating me, you better wake up and apologize.’
“It’s hard to be humble when you’re as great as I am.”
“Not only do I knock’em out , I pick the round.”
“I’m a poet, I’m a prophet, I’m the resurrector, I’m the savior of the boxing world. If it
wasn’t for me, the game would be dead.”
“It’s not bragging if you can back it up.”
“I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.”
And he could be inspiring…
“Don’t count the days, make the days count.”
“Live every day like it’s your last because someday you’re going to be right.”
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”
Ironically, he also said, “I don’t like fighters who talk too much.” – CNN

He would predict when British boxer Henry Cooper would be knocked out.
“Henry, this is no jive. The fight will end in five,” and it did. The man Muhammad Ali brought finesse to a sport many derided as violent and dangerous. He made boxing a choice sport.
“I will not miss boxing. Boxing will miss me,” he said and indeed with his retirement the color in the sport faded. Boxing to Ali was a science and an art. There is not enough ink to eulogize the Champ. He was a cut above all. His life out of the ring was exceptional. He made champions out of the down and out. He had a thing with children nobody ever had. He is reported to have lifted a paraplegic hild into his arms and danced with him telling him he could be anything he wanted to be even in his state. He gave hope to the hopeless. He was not a politician but he influenced many of them, black and white. On race, he condemned prejudice by all, black on white, white on black. He inspired the young and old, those in trouble, the sick and infirm…and he gave with abandon. His nickname was the Greatest. And who could deny him that. Howard Cosell, his journalist friend on Muhammad’s 50th birthday, tearfully told him he was great. And it was a great compliment coming from Cosell. Ali himself called himself the Greatest and so he was. His seventy-four years on earth was spent fighting in the ring, fighting a just cause, fighting for the weak and infirm, inspiring and giving. What more could a man live for? There is no fitting tribute to Ali than the description of his final moments by his daughter. Hana Ali, one of Ali’s nine children, shared an anecdote from the scene at her father’s bedside as he died. “We all tried to stay strong and whispered in his ear, ‘You can go now. We will be okay. We love you. Thank you. You can go back to God now.’ All of us were around him hugging and kissing him and holding his hands, chanting the Islamic prayer. All of his organs failed but his HEART wouldn’t stop beating. For 30 minutes…his heart just keeps beating. No one had ever seen anything like it. A true testament to the strength of his Spirit and Will!” – msn.com
Ali is survived by his wife Lonnie and his children.

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http://amandlanews.com/africa-cameroons-ekeng-dies-during-romanian/#respondWed, 11 May 2016 20:22:47 +0000http://amandlanews.com/?p=4758Following the tragic death of Cameroon international Patrice Ekeng Ekeng, which occurred on the night of Friday, May 6, 2016, President of the Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF) Issa Hayatou has conveyed condolences on his own behalf, the CAF Executive Committee and the African football family to the bereaved family and the Fédération Camerounaise de Football.
“It is extremely difficult to find words to understand such a brutal tragedy” the CAF President remarked after the latest drama to hit African football.
The defensive midfielder fell to the ground without any contact with another player in the 70th minute of the game against Viitorul Constanta, just seven minutes after coming on as a substitute for his club Dinamo Bucuresti in a league match on Friday, 6 May 2016. He was transported and resuscitated at the hospital, and within two hours the medical staff confirmed he died. Medical sources point the cause to cardiac related.
Ekeng, 26, was in the squad for the final tournament of the Orange AFCON 2015 in Equatorial Guinea. In 2009, he was a member of the Cameroon U-20 team that lost to Ghana in the final of the U-20 AFCON in Rwanda, and went on to play at the FIFA U-20 World Cup later the same year in Egypt. allAfrica.com
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http://amandlanews.com/burkina-faso-girls-football-tackles-forced-marriage/#respondWed, 11 May 2016 20:21:25 +0000http://amandlanews.com/?p=4756By Zoe Tabary

Yako — When Inès Sanso was 15 years old, her family decided she was to marry a man three times her age in Yako, a small town in the rural north of Burkina Faso.
Unable to continue paying for her education, they told Sanso the time had come for her to be a wife and a mother.
Sanso confided in her favourite teacher, Catherine Zoungrana, who, along with other teachers at the secondary school, scraped together around $25 to give to the family.
They convinced Sanso’s parents to halt the marriage plans and use the money to pay for her schooling, assuring them it would help her to find a better husband when she was older.
Six years later, Sanso works as a primary school teacher in the nearby town of Ouahigouya. “She is getting married this year, but to a man she loves,” Zoungrana told the Thomson Reuters Foundation, glowing with pride.
Sanso’s planned marriage was not uncommon in Burkina Faso which has the sixth highest rate of early marriage in Africa. One in 10 girls are married by the age of 15 and more than half by 18, according to the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF.
Forced marriage is illegal in the West African nation, but the law applies only to state-registered marriages, rather than the religious and traditional ceremonies which account for most of Burkina Faso’s forced and early marriages, said Amnesty International in a report last month.
Spurred on by her successful intervention in Sanso’s case, Zoungrana decided to do more to tackle the custom of child marriage in the traditional town where girls often have a husband chosen for them from when they are born.
“In 2012, I started a girls’ football club at the school, so that students could openly discuss issues such as sexuality, relationships and marriage,” she said, wearing an embroidered blue dress as she enjoys some time off on a public holiday.
GET THE BALL ROLLING
Joining the girls’ conversations before and after football practice allows Zoungrana to identify any problems, raise the issue with the student concerned and potentially with her family.
“Girls already discuss some of these issues amongst themselves, but what they’re missing is the confidence to bring up the topic with their families,” said Zoungrana.
She believes that playing a traditionally male sport empowers girls to stand up for themselves when confronted with decisions their families make for them.
Zoungrana knew nothing about football, but chose the sport for its wide appeal.
“Everyone likes football, and yet girls here just don’t play it,” she said. She studied for a sports teaching degree in addition to her daily job as a teacher, so she could coach the girls herself.
Starting with 40 girls aged 12 to 23, the club now has 160 student members from four nearby schools.
“I invited school principals from the area to come watch our games,” said Zoungrana. “They were skeptical at first – saying it wasn’t appropriate for a woman to teach sports – but got curious when they saw how popular the club was.”
Her fellow teachers weren’t the only ones to voice disapproval. “Parents, particularly the fathers, thought the club would detract their daughters from cooking or taking care of their younger siblings,” said Zoungrana.
To convince them, she visited each girl’s parents and made a case for joining the club. “They eventually gave in – possibly because they just wanted to get rid of me!” she laughed.
Zoungrana said the football initiative has allowed her to intervene to prevent the forced marriage of three girl students.
But she wishes she could do more. “My one regret is that I’m only insured to teach football to girls who are already in school,” she said, sitting inside to escape the searing 49-degree Celsius heat that has left the town’s normally bustling streets empty.
“Those that aren’t are probably the ones most in need of help.”
MAKING CHOICES
Worldwide, more than 700 million women were married before their 18th birthday, according to a 2014 UNICEF report. More than one in three of them were married before the age of 15.
Child brides are at greater risk of domestic and sexual violence and HIV, campaigners say.
Early marriage also cuts short a girl’s education and can increase the risk of death or childbirth injuries if she has a baby before her body is ready.
“A girl who doesn’t know or understand her body is in no position to have a child,” said Zoungrana, who encourages her girl footballers to talk openly about sexuality and family planning – and to ask questions.
Fewer than one in six women and girls in Burkina Faso use contraception, dramatically increasing the risk of unwanted and sometimes high-risk pregnancies, according to Amnesty.
It found that at least 2,800 women in Burkina Faso die in childbirth every year, a figure that could be reduced by one-third with better access to birth control.
The football club alone will not end the practice of early marriage in Yako, where under a straw-roofed stall, a lone woman braves the heat to sell a few yellowing cabbages and potatoes.
But Zoungrana hopes her project will at least help girls have a stronger voice in how they live their lives.
“Making your own choices should not be a luxury,” she said. “It is a fundamental right.”
– Reporting by Zoe Tabary, editing by Ros Russell

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http://amandlanews.com/dwarfs-coach-backs-asante-kotokos-title-winning-bid/#respondWed, 11 May 2016 20:19:38 +0000http://amandlanews.com/?p=4753Ebusua Dwarfs coach JE Sarpong has endorsed Asante Kotoko’s title winning credentials after his side got clobbered 3-0 at the Baba Yara Stadium on Sunday.
Youngster Dauda Mohammed bagged a brace and in between that Frank Sarfo Gyamfi also netted to give Kotoko the comprehensive win.
Dwarfs newly signed striker Gilbert Fiamenyo came off the bench to waste a penalty which would have been a consolation goal.
Sarpong admitted his side were second best on the afternoon and tipped Kotoko to win this season’s Premier League if they maintain their form.
“I congratulate them. If they play like this, I think Kotoko can win the league,” Sarpong said in a post-match interview.
“Kotoko did very well. In terms of intensity and transition, Kotoko was ahead.”
Asante Kotoko have now moved to fifth on the table; four points behind leaders Hearts of Oak.
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